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Ritual wine vessel (hu)
Chinese
Western Zhou dynasty
10th–9th century B.C.
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
32 x 12.4 cm (12 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz, Mrs. Charles Goddard Weld, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert E. Fuller, and Robert Treat Paine, 2nd
Accession Number29.795a-b
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsMetalwork
Inscriptions3 character inscription: [emblem] Fu Ding (Father Ding)
ProvenanceBy 1929, Edgar Worch (vorm. Ludwig Glenk Antiquitäten), Berlin; 1929, sold by Worch to the MFA for $22,500. (Accession date: March 7, 1929)